As Snooks continues her rehabilitation (shown here in May 2010), she receives treatments 2 to 4 times per month, with lots of conditioning, building and strengthening.
Courtesy Janet Crow
Angular Limb Deformity Treated with
Unique Healing Method continued from p. 19
Treatments were done twice a week for 3 months, and then reduced to one time per week. As the tendons and ligaments began to lengthen, the swelling on the joints reduced and they re-aligned, even better than I had anticipated. Te muscles were soon able to support their load and begin conditioning. When her legs were able to straighten, her chest started to widen, her back leveled out, she came down off her toes in the rear legs, and she started to tone up in the correct areas.
O Conditions as severe as Snooks’ must be treated in layers.
Treatments were performed twice a week for 3 months, and then reduced to one time per week.
Te next layer is to lengthen the contracted tendons and ligaments. Te legs cannot extend, and the joints cannot align until pressure from the too-short tendons and ligaments is removed. Te first six treatments were painful for Snooks, at and around the surgery sites, decreasing a little each time after the second treatment.
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own rehabilitation, and seems to know what she needs and can endure. I passively stretch her front legs for her, but ever since she has been able to straighten her legs, several times a day she rocks back and stretches her legs out in front of her. I think it still amazes her that she can straighten them, and it must feel SO good. Te past month she has progressed to galloping and playing around the arena, fast bursts of speed, bucks, and roll-backs.
Snooks has a big heart, a lot of try, and an owner who loves her, all major assets in her healing journey.
Janet Crow offers certification courses in the Touch and Torch Method of Natural Healing. Visit
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Holistic Horse™ • October/November 2010 • Vol.16, Issue 69
n February 1, about a month after beginning treatment, 8 months after birth, Snooks cantered for the first time
in her life. It was only 4 strides, but it was the most beautiful 4 strides I had ever seen. She receives treatments 2 to 4 times per month now, with lots of conditioning, building and strengthening. We are still working on the left suspensory tendon that was so severely damaged due to the club foot on that leg and the scarring from the casts. Tis too, is still continuing to progress as she rehabilitates.
Initially, Snooks was kept in a small corral to restrict movement until the tendons and ligaments were lengthened. In April she was turned out in a small grazing area, graduating to the arena, and now a large pasture. She has been a real trooper with her
Courtesy Janet Crow
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